a. What are some things students can do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
Spend as much time in the classroom with your CT as you can. Find out if you two are compatible with each other or do you clash. If you clash I recommend asking for a new CT. One that will work with you and also one that your personality and styles don’t clash. If they clash your students teaching time will not be a fun one.
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
Get a list of what you will be teaching from your CT so you can make your unit plan for your student teaching. This is what I did and it made my first month extremely smooth. Just don’t make your unit plan make as many lesson plans and worksheets as possible the first semester. Then while your students teaching you can just fill in the blanks and modify the lessons instead of creating them from scratch.
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have done a better job during student teaching if I had ...."
Listen to Jay on my lesson plans and also spent more time in the classroom working with the students before I started teaching.
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share?
Keep your head up. Keep everything positive. As soon as you start seeing the glass as half empty everything will fall apart. Always remember the glass is half full.
a. What are some things students can do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
Spend as much time in the classroom with your CT as you can. Find out if you two are compatible with each other or do you clash. If you clash I recommend asking for a new CT. One that will work with you and also one that your personality and styles don’t clash. If they clash your students teaching time will not be a fun one.
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
Get a list of what you will be teaching from your CT so you can make your unit plan for your student teaching. This is what I did and it made my first month extremely smooth. Just don’t make your unit plan make as many lesson plans and worksheets as possible the first semester. Then while your students teaching you can just fill in the blanks and modify the lessons instead of creating them from scratch.
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have done a better job during student teaching if I had ...."
Listen to Jay on my lesson plans and also spent more time in the classroom working with the students before I started teaching.
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share?
Keep your head up. Keep everything positive. As soon as you start seeing the glass as half empty everything will fall apart. Always remember the glass is half full.